Ti's ships - Hephaestus Airship & Fighter

_Ti__ · Post by **_Ti__** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:40 pm

This is my first try on a steampunk ship, Ill be posting a gif and more details soon. Any comments so far?

Mak0 · Post by **Mak0** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:38 pm

Liking it so far. Reminds me of some of the final fantasy airships, and some of the studio ghibli airship designs.

Screenie would look better with a sun in the background

MelvinVm · Post by **MelvinVm** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 5:17 pm

Liking it so far. Reminds me of some of the final fantasy airships, and some of the studio ghibli airship designs.

Screenie would look better with a sun in the background

Oh man, final fantasy 12 airships = epic win.

DoomBringer · Post by **DoomBringer** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:25 pm

Nice That is so Final fantasy but what would an airship be doing in space?

MelvinVm · Post by **MelvinVm** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:54 pm

Nice That is so Final fantasy but what would an airship be doing in space?

No idea, might be drifted out from a huge explosion nuke which knocked it off the planet?

Or super systems that allow it to move in space.

Post by **Kaelis** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 10:11 pm

Haha, poor Kanosint, beaten to it by someone else. Serves him right for taking so long

Very nice airship, truly steampunk.

DoomBringer wrote:Nice That is so Final fantasy but what would an airship be doing in space?

So what if its in space? Just because BSF setting is space doesn't mean we should never do non-spaceworthy ships. Otherwise steampunk sections would be pointless.

_Ti__ · Post by **_Ti__** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:07 pm

Kanosint? haha. Anyway I never played FF

Heres the gif I promised: (try saving and opening on the pc, its slow on the browser)

EDIT: Ill make a better gif, this one is crap.

MelvinVm · Post by **MelvinVm** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:13 am

A little improvement is needed on the steam exhaust doodies.
But furthermore, nicely done!

Bad Boy · Post by **Bad Boy** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 5:07 am

Very nice. It's very armored airship looking, so you succeeded there well.
To get the smoke to look better, lower the animation speed (it worked for me), or simply use thrusters.
When you finish it/if you've finished it, I'd love a download.

_Ti__ · Post by **_Ti__** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 10:52 pm

New fighter:

About the exaust doodies, I think Ill get rid of them and use just thrusters.
Also, I plan to release it soon, just need to fix some small things.

Deltaflyer · Post by **Deltaflyer** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:46 pm

Awesome in a sepia-toned can. Honestly. These are totally awesome. Keep it up.

Aaganrmu · Post by **Aaganrmu** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 12:05 am

Haha, the plane is great! It has just the right balance between falling apart and being clunky to make it a believable mad-genius flying machine.

The airship is great too, with a lot of nice details. Especially the belts driving the props and the lightbulb at the front catch my eye. I'm not totally convinced by the hull plating at the front/back end (where the curves of the blimp start), but don't really know how to fix that either. The 'bad' parts are far outweighted by the greatness anyway.

Pyper · Post by **Pyper** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 5:04 am

Love the airship and especially the little airplane. Nice colors and movement!

Watching the animated airship, I see you have solved a problem that has been bothering me. How did you animate the chains driving the lifting propellers? I've tried something of the effect but I cannot get all the chain links to travel at the same speed. It's probably something simple I am overlooking, but can you give a little rundown of how you acheived it?

VNilla · Post by **VNilla** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 6:11 am

Very nice so far, but remember to be careful with stretched sections. Overuse or overstretching doesn't look very good!

_Ti__ · Post by **_Ti__** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 10:42 am

Aaganrmu wrote: I'm not totally convinced by the hull plating at the front/back end (where the curves of the blimp start), but don't really know how to fix that either. The 'bad' parts are far outweighted by the greatness anyway.

Yeah, that part was much more difficult than I expected, I tried a lot of diferent ways, but this one was better.

Pyper wrote:Watching the animated airship, I see you have solved a problem that has been bothering me. How did you animate the chains driving the lifting propellers? I've tried something of the effect but I cannot get all the chain links to travel at the same speed. It's probably something simple I am overlooking, but can you give a little rundown of how you acheived it?

You make a section move for, lets say, 10 frames, and return in 1. then start clonning it, and for every clone change the start position, in a progression(0,2,4,6 or 0,3,6...). don't know if theres other way, but thats how I did it.

Thanks for the comments, I will start working on my minifleet now, but still have some other ideas on this style, Ill get back to it later.